I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Eliminate distractions and focus on priorities.

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.